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Confederacy's and defeat
Lincoln's defeat could well have meant the victory of the Confederacy, as the Democratic Party platform called for peace negotiations based on the acknowledgment of the Confederacy's independence.
Meanwhile, in a defeated Confederacy wracked by inflation and despair, a former Confederate Army sergeant named Jake Featherston and his Freedom Party are preaching a message of hate, blaming the southern aristocracy and the " niggers who stabbed us in the back " for the Confederacy's defeat.
He did not serve in the Union Army against Alabama, but he made no secret of his pro-Union views and wrote to various members of the Lincoln administration and the United States War Department advising them on how best to mollify the South peaceably and how to deal with Reconstruction upon the Confederacy's inevitable defeat.
His combat experience and subsequent internment on the Confederacy's defeat left him with a military bearing and, untainted by cynicism, an enthusiasm to be part of the Reconstruction.
Regardless of the generous nature of the Confederacy's terms, and most likely inspired by Britain's partial annexation of his home state, and the defeat overall, President Blaine takes the end of the war hard.
His death during the first day of the battle at Shiloh arguably led to the Confederacy's defeat in that conflict.
That, combined with the Confederacy's defeat that year, leaves him a bitter and vengeful man.
However, Semmes ' term was marred by the Confederacy's defeat in the Great War and the subsequent loss of territory to the United States.
Despite the Confederacy's defeat, Stuart remained the head of the postwar Confederate Army.
The Freedom Party, a nationalist, totalitarian party, rose following the Confederacy's defeat in the Great War and obtained power in the Presidential election of 1933, though Featherston didn't become president until March 4, 1934, as the Confederate Constitution required.

Confederacy's and became
He became commander of the Confederacy's western armies in the area often called the Western Department or Western Military Department.
He became a lightning rod for popular discontent with the Confederacy's military situation, and quarreled with the Confederate Generals P. G. T.
In the long term, it became clear that the expedition broke the Iroquois Confederacy's power to maintain their former crops and utilize many town locations ; the expedition appeared to have caused little more than famine and dispersion of the Iroquois people.
During the American Civil War, blockade running became a major enterprise for the Confederacy due to the Union's Anaconda Plan, which sought to cut off all the Confederacy's overseas trade.
In August 1863, Lawton became the Confederacy's second Quartermaster General.

Confederacy's and more
Areas known for their salt mines include Kilroot near Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland ( over 100 years old with more than 25 km of passages ); Khewra and Warcha in Pakistan ; Tuzla in Bosnia ; Wieliczka and Bochnia in Poland ( both established in the mid-13th century and still operating, mostly as museums ); Hallstatt and Salzkammergut in Austria ; Rheinberg in Germany ; Slănic, Cacica, Ocnele Mari, Salina Turda, Târgu Ocna, Ocna Sibiului, and Praid in Romania ; Provadiya in Bulgaria ; Racalmuto, Realmonte and Petralia Soprana within the production sites managed by Italkali in southern Italy ; Avery Island in Louisiana, United States ; Saltville, Virginia, which served as the site of one of the Confederacy's main saltworks ; the wich towns of Cheshire and Worcestershire in England ; and the Detroit Salt Company's subterranean complex beneath the city of Detroit.
As it turned out, the Union had relatively little trouble defeating the disorganized Rebel forces in the Western Theater, and within a year of the Battle of Tampa, the capture of Vicksburg, MS, cemented Union control of the Mississippi River, severely compromising the Confederacy's already limited infrastructure far more than a successful Florida Campaign ever could.

Confederacy's and 1865
The Confederacy's government was effectively dissolved with the last meeting of the Confederate cabinet on May 5, 1865 and with the capture of President Jefferson Davis by Union forces on May 10, 1865.
Late in the war, the Richmond and Danville Railroad was the Confederacy's last link to Richmond, and transported Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to Danville, Virginia just before the fall of Richmond in April 1865.
The film begins with a prologue set in Richmond, Virginia in 1865, showing the ironclad CSS Texas, carrying the last of the Confederacy's treasury, as Captain Adrian Tombs tries to run a Union blockade.

Confederacy's and Booth
Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.

Confederacy's and end
Like Grant, Sherman was convinced that the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological ability to wage further war needed to be definitively crushed if the fighting were to end.
He and the U. S. Army commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken.
Richmond was heavily exposed, and at the end of a long supply line ; much of the Confederacy's manpower was dedicated to its defense.
A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort.
Sherman implemented " scorched earth " policies ; he and Union Army commander Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacities for warfare were decisively broken.
Formed near the end of the Second Great War, this was a combination of the Confederacy's remaining manpower, essentially a federalization of the State Militias and Home Guards, much like the Volksturm of our timeline.

Confederacy's and election
As the 1864 Presidential election drew near, the Confederacy's prospects for victory were ebbing and the tide of war increasingly favored the North.

Confederacy's and second
The building also served as the Capitol of the Confederacy during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) ( It was the Confederacy's second home, the first being the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama ).

Confederacy's and making
Davis immediately approved Bartow's plan and designated him the commander of the new Confederate force, making Bartow's Oglethorpe Light Infantry the first company to officially contribute its services to the Confederacy's national war effort.

Confederacy's and ",
The Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly in the Virginia State Capitol, with the Confederacy's executive mansion, the " White House of the Confederacy ", located two blocks away.
The March 1861 " Cornerstone Speech " of Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens even argued that Jefferson's words in the Declaration were mistaken, and that the Confederacy's new Constitution, establishing " our peculiar institution ", had rectified the error.

Confederacy's and .
Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.
" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.
Davis evaluated the Confederacy's national resources and weaknesses and decided that, in order to win its independence, the Confederacy would have to fight mostly on the strategic defensive.
The source of the Aro Confederacy's economic dominance was based on the judicial oracle of Ibini Ukpabi (" Long Juju ") and their military forces which included powerful allies such as Ohafia, Abam, Ezza, and other related neighboring states.
The Union strategy, of a comprehensive effort to bring about a speedy victory for the Union, designed by President Lincoln and Grant, consisted of combined military Union offensives, attacking the Confederacy's armies, railroads, and economic infrastructure, to keep the Confederate armies from mobilizing reinforcements within southern interior lines.
* September 5 – American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55, 000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens " walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute " and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those " circa 1950, 1960 " on Earth.
Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting.
Authors of the Lost Cause movement focused on Longstreet's actions at Gettysburg as a primary reason for the Confederacy's loss of the war.
* Knudsen, LTC Harold M. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Modern General.
* Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography.
The number of people who lived in the destroyed towns represented just over 1 % of the Confederacy's combined urban and rural populations.
The Confederacy's last ironclad, Japanese battleship Kōtetsu | Stonewall, was provided by France.
The Confederacy's messages were far from secret and the Union regularly cracked their messages.

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